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On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philippe Petit

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Misha Defonseca

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Werner Herzog

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Greta Thunberg

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maxim Lapunov

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mads Brügger

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Meera Devi

In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Katherine Cummings

The story of the short life, and brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptional and inspiring young woman. The rape of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Asha Devi

With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacqueline Siegel

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John M. Hull

Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli lawyer, defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lea Tsemel

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Johnny Depp

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sammy Silverwatch

A daughter is searching to understand her mother’s absence: were they ‘estranged’ because of heroin, or did their separation run...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lisa Selby

The definitive portrait of an extraordinary man; an English World Cup winning legend, who became an Irish hero. The documentary features key...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Charlton

On 12 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin. The other...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

As the disaster of yet another school shooting hits, some parents are faced with a brutal fact: their child was the one pulling the trigger. Jeff...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeff Williams

Charismatic, charming and complex, Sérgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Boniface Mwangi is daring and audacious, and recognized as Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist. But as a father of three young children,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Boniface Mwangi